Tuesday, June 19, 2001

Additional features

Additional features of the MSI K7T Turbo R (MS-6330) motherboard include: Wake on LAN, Wake on Modem Ring, PS2 connectors for connecting mice & keyboards, 4 USB ports - two of which are located on the back panel, an integrated AC"97 sound-card, Power Lost Recovery, Suspend to RAM, Suspend to Disk, RX/TX connectors for infrared, and start-up from the mouse, keyboard, or at a pre-set time. Hardware monitoring of fan speed, CPU temperature, and of voltages is also included as a standard feature of this PC99-compliant motherboard.

Finally, let's not forget that the K7T Turbo includes an integrated RAID controller, a D-LED diagnostic panel, Fuzzy Logic 3, and the Live BIOS update system.

Below, a photo of the MSI K7T Turbo R (MS-6330).

Note that the two additional drive connectors sprouting from the Promise Technologies 20265R controller are available only as part of the "R" series of this board.

Installation

Installation of the MSI K7T Turbo R (MS-6330) is quite simple, thanks to its jumperless design. Users need only insure that JP17 is set as required by the installed CPU, slap the board in a casing, plug-in, and boot-up.

The software bundle.

The installation CD includes the VIA 4-in-1 version 4.28v patches, drivers for the sound-card, drivers for the RAID controller, Adobe Acrobat Reader, a digital rendition of the user's manual, PC-cillin, PC-Alert, 3D Turbo, and Fuzy Logic 3.

The hardware bundle

The MSI K7T Turbo (MS-6330) comes with: two 80-pin ATA66/100 cables, a floppy-drive cable, and a USB connector for the rear panel.

Next: Specifications.